Discussion on Pharmaceutical Profits and Ethics

Out of respect for you and your show- ... I've brought some facts.

Hm. Would you- If you'd like to actually- No. No.

You just, you just get the fuck out of here. I thought- This is not the place.

No, I thought that you liked facts. No. I, we do. No, they- We love facts.

I love facts. I wouldn't have mentioned it.

I'm English, and you know that politeness is our fundamental religion.

Mm, yeah. But they do pertain to this issue, so may I say some of them? Please, please. Please do. If they inconvenience you- I see- ... I'll, I'll stop saying them.

The pandemic created at least 40 new phar- Big Pharma billionaires.

Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer made $1,000 of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine. Wow.

More than two-thirds of Congress received campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election.

Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla told Time Magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing the COVID vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money.

And of course, Pfizer made $100 billion- Right. Okay ... in profit in 2022. All right. All right. For, uh...

And, and may I just mention, finally, and these are, this is also a fact, that you, the American public, funded the development of that.

The German fund, uh, public, f- uh, funded the BioNtech, uh, vaccine.

When it came to the profits, they took the profits.

When it came to the funding, you paid for the funding. All right.

If you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex- Okay ... benefits from war, where an energy companies benefit from energy crises,

you are going to generate- These get... Right ... states of perpetual crisis- Yes ... where the interests of ordinary people- And, and, uh, yes. And- ... separate from the interests of the elites.